Roy Schestowitz wrote:
High Plains Thumper on Saturday:
NoStop on Monday:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20070910.wgtmsft0910/BNStory/Technology/home
The EU wants to maintain independence from other first world
countries outside EU. To do that requires establishment of
its own industries. An outside monopoly providing software
outside the EU does not provide bread on the table in EU.
Yes, there are corollary jobs that are related, but overall
the EU needs to develop their own industries. That is where
the jobs will be.
We will know for sure after Monday.
Some research has shown that Europe will be better off
(financially) if it develops its own Free software. The
decision in Europe is very important because it's seen as
somewhat of a benchmark to be used in the US, where states
demand Microsoft supervision and oversight until 2012.
Actually, the whole world will benefit. Even the US had a
thriving software industry until the near monopoly monopolised
the office automation productivity software. Most of those
companies and offices are no longer around.
We have seen what happened when the near monopoly monopolised the
PC network system. Many of those companies are no longer around.
Now they are attempting to monopolise the server market. This
and the related network competition lock-out are the essence of
EU punitive actions. If the courts do not back their
commissioner's decisions, it will remove any teeth it has for
future decisions.
Novell, mind you, is on the bad side here. Microsoft is using
Novell, again. As if OOXML and other nasties weren't enough
use...
We have seen the effects of "embrace, extend, extinguish".
OOXML's lack of adherence to standards makes it a poor model to
employ as a standard. Remember, it is possible for even
Microsoft Office to be ODF compatible (until they broke it by
bypassing the ODF filter in Office 2007 during file opening,
rendering it useless).
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HPT
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